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12/22/2003 Archived Entry: "No home-field advantage for Limbaugh."
No home-field advantage for Limbaugh.
Boy, they just love Pigboy in his home town. Note how the Palm Beach Post defends Mr. Excellence in Doctor-Shopping.
Belittling the police and prosecutors who suspect Mr. Limbaugh of illegal "doctor-shopping" to obtain addictive prescription drugs might play well inside the talk-show host's small broadcast booth and in the bunkers that a fair number of his paranoid anti-government adherents inhabit. Such descriptions, however, have no place in the real world of courts and serious issues such as drug abuse. Mr. Limbaugh obviously is not happy to find himself in that real world, but he is there because of his own actions.[...]
Mr. Limbaugh claims that he's being singled out for persecution. His real gripe is that he isn't getting special treatment. Mr. Limbaugh's shtick is that "minions of the state" can't do things right. In his case, they're proving him wrong.
I continue to hope that they nail his humorless, drug-addled ass to the wall. Remember, Mr. Prosecutor, these two words: mandatory minimums. Thank you.
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As a general rule, I wholeheartedly disagree with the war and drugs and all that it entails. BUT when one of the loudest supporters gets caught it the most hypocritical moment possible, there leaves only 2 options. 1) Repeal the drug laws. 2) Nail his ass to the wall in the same fashion he's called for for years.
Posted by djdissent @ 12/22/2003 08:51 AM NY
I wholeheartedly agree with you djdissent! I find it ironic that they nail Tommy Chong, and make an example of him BECAUSE he is high profile... the same should be done for Rush. Just think of how many little conservative kids will think twice before popping some illegally obtained prescription drugs before class.
I would like to reiterate however, I believe that the war on drugs is a waste of tax payers money. I believe Mike Moore stated it best in Dude Where's My Country when he said "you cant declare war on a noun".
America's prisons are far too overcrowded to waste space on either a comedian/entrepreneur for selling glassware or a pompus talk show host for popping pills.
That being said... Happy Holidays Everyone =)
Posted by sellursoul @ 12/22/2003 09:49 AM NY
as much as i would love to see rush go to jail, i dont think anyone should be jailed for any consentual crime, even if they are republicans. the only drug crime that should be criminal is the selling of drugs to children. they should simply legalize everything, set a minimum age, and tax the hell out of it. drugs are a multi billion dollar industry, just an 8% sales tax on that could pull our education system out of bankruptcy, not to mention all the money we wouldnt be wasting on police and prisons and drug sniffing dogs. the drug war is killing this country.
Posted by justin @ 12/22/2003 11:33 AM NY
Since Rush is a concerned citizen who supports the drug war on drugs, you'd think he'd turn himself in. =)
However, I whole heartedly agree with you - that nonviolent crimes (drug use) by adults should not be punished. I also believe that many violent crimes (mostly murders) are a by product of prohibition (The War on Drugs).
I also agree that by legalizing and taxing drugs we could fund arts programs, after school programs, education, and health care.
In fact certain drugs (marijuana) come from plants that are a great natural resource. Cleaner burning fuel, rope, paper, and even plastics can be created from Hemp. I find it ironic that facts like these are hidden from most people... Most people assume that only "pot-heads" care about legalization... I think it is an issue that everyone should care about - particularly those who favor education and those who favor protecting the environment.
Posted by sellursoul @ 12/22/2003 12:24 PM NY
Great idea to legalize and tax drugs that are included in the failed so called "drug war".
To bad the cynic in me rises to wonder where the money from the
lottery went that was to go to schools.I do not think for a second
that the zealot rethugs would allow ANY of that money into PUBLIC
schools,and least of all art.These greedy pigs would be knocking each other down to line their already overstuffed accounts w/$$$$$$$$$$$$$.Hope they get enough $$$$$$$$$$$ to buy their way into heaven!!!
Posted by lush @ 12/22/2003 01:14 PM NY
But...but.. this is Rush! The spokesMAN for the common man. Doesn't he get the perpetual Get Out Of Jail card? Can't we cut this guy some slack? He enables millions of human beings to turn off their brains and think with their spleens.
God bless and preserve you, Rush. I'll say a Hail Mary for you tonight.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 12/22/2003 04:07 PM NY
Justin, will you please start capitalizing the beginning of your sentences? It's consensual, am I the only one who knows how to congugate words?
Posted by Stentor @ 12/22/2003 10:52 PM NY
Shit, conjugate, now I can't even spell. Damn Justin, it's only one extra key to capitalize, and paragraphs, man, paragraphs, good God, the horror, the horror!
Posted by Stentor @ 12/22/2003 10:56 PM NY
sorry if im not as anal as you
Posted by justin @ 12/23/2003 10:26 AM NY
by the way, that was a paragraph. if you want to write 2 sentence paragraphs you are welcome to, but i was always taught in school that a paragraph is 3 or more sentences along a single concept.
as for the capitalization, i dont have a decent computer desk, and im typing in my lap. every keystroke just adds further to my already developing carpal tunnel (im only 26 for christ sake)
Posted by justin @ 12/23/2003 08:05 PM NY
Hey, I don't blame Rush a bit for abusing drugs.
If YOUR job consisted of spending several hours a day conversing with whining ditto-monkeys, wouldn't YOU want drugs? I know I would.
Posted by Realist @ 12/28/2003 02:24 PM NY
